According to a probable cause statement filed by the LaVerkin City Police Department, at about 4:03 p.m., Taylor broke away from the officers’ vehicle in Purgatory’s sally port and sprinted underneath the closing sally port door.

Romney chased close behind Taylor under the door and through the parking lot, according to the probable cause statement, yelling at him to stop. Romney closed the distance between he and Taylor and knocked him to the ground.

Romney held him down until Bull and correctional officers arrived to help, the statement said. Taylor continued to resist arrest “by becoming dead weight and having to be dragged into the correctional facility.”

Taylor was then charged with escaping from official custody, a third-degree felony, and failing to stop at the command of law enforcement, a class-A misdemeanor.

Taylor’s initial arrest took place just moments before transportation to the correctional facility.

Bull responded to a call from dispatch that a silver Ford Focus was driving erratically northbound across Laverkin Bridge. Bull found the vehicle and pulled over Taylor.

According to a separate probable cause statement filed by the LaVerkin City Police Department, Bull asked Taylor if he had been drinking, and Taylor said he had. After identifying Taylor, that’s when the officers discovered that Taylor was driving with a revoked driver’s license.

Taylor made multiple attempts to exit the patrol vehicle while in custody, according to the probable cause statement filed in conjunction with the first arrest.

Taylor was charged with a DUI, a third-degree felony, driving with a revoked driver’s license, a class-B misdemeanor, and having an open container of alcohol in a vehicle on the highway, a class-C misdemeanor.

Total bail for the combined arrests at booking is listed at $12,793.

Persons arrested or charged are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law or as otherwise decided by a trier-of-fact.

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About the Author

Richard Briggs has worked in journalism since his graduation from Dixie State University in May 2012. He worked at the Tooele Transcript-Bulletin in Tooele, Utah, from October 2012 through April 2014 with varying duties as Community News Editor, sports writer and copy editor. Immediately following school at Dixie, he worked as the Sports Editor for the Carlsbad Current-Argus in Carlsbad, N.M., until moving to the Tooele newspaper. While in college at Dixie, Richard worked for three years at the school's student-run newspaper, the Dixie Sun. Richard is a Southern Utah kid, growing up in Santa Clara and graduating from Snow Canyon High School.